Re: Emergency! Performance downloading big files

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'Twas brillig, and Michael Shadle at 01/12/09 23:51 did gyre and gimble:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, James McLean <james.mclean@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The suggestion from other users of off-loading the PDF downloading to
Apache (or another webserver) is a good idea also.

^

I never allow PHP to be [ab]used and kept open to spoonfeed clients
with fopen/readfile/etc.

I think there has been some confusion.... The OP wanted a way to *download* the files *from* somewhere, not dish them up to his clients.

I think some or the replies were assuming he wanted to have a PHP script as a guardian to protect content from unauthorised users but that is not what he actually said!

in apache there is a "mod_sendfile" module I think. never used it.

The above said, I didn't know about this module and it looks rather useful, so thanks for pointing it out :D

Here is the first Google result I found on this issue which explains it a bit.
http://codeutopia.net/blog/2009/03/06/sending-files-better-apache-mod_xsendfile-and-php/

Col

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